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Martin is the fourth candidate to launch a bid for the post, joining Justices Karen Baker, Barbara Webb and Rhonda Wood. Arkansas’ court seats are nonpartisan, but the court has been targeted by outside conservative groups in recent years.a former state GOP chairman and federal prosecutor, Cody Hiland, to the seven-member court, creating a conservative majority that includes Webb and Wood. Baker won reelection last year, defeating a former Republican lawmaker who touted himself as a constitutional conservative.Martin served in the state House from 2003 to 2007.